Free Small Business Web Site 08 – Do You See A Theme?
November 5th, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |The next thing we’re going to do is the most fun for you. I’ll let you run free with this one. Over under the “Design” tab, you want to go to “Themes”. This is where you get to pick what your site looks like. There are pages of themes to choose from, some better than others for what we want to do here. Go ahead. Look through all of them. I know you want to. When you find one that you think you might like, click on it.
Your site will pop up on the page, using the theme that you choose. Most of the time, there’s a graphic at the top that we might be able to change to one that you upload, so don’t sweat that too much right now.
On my example site, I have Contempt, but you might want to use one that’s Neat! or maybe one that’s Simpla. When you find one that you think you might use, click on the “Activate Theme” link on the top right.
Since I forgot to tell you to go look at your site before, let’s go look at it now. Click on “Visit Site” at the very top.
Every place we’ve been so far I’m going to refer to as the “Admin” or the “Backend”, since only a admin can see it. The general public can not see it. It’s the stuff behind the curtain. The public pages, the stuff the everyone can see, I’ll refer to as the “Front end”. Now, you should be looking at the front end.
There are some more new terms that I’m going to use like you know what I’m talking about. The top part is the “header”. The skinny side areas on the side(s) are “Sidebars”. The stuff at the bottom is the “footer”. The links to the pages are the “Navigation”. Do you need to go to the bathroom to think about all that for a bit?
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